$20K reward in recent Central High grad's killingLITTLE ROCK(AP) — Police are offering a $20,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of the person who fired a stray bullet that killed a recent graduate of Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock police announced it was increasing the reward offer on Friday from $10,000 to $20,000. Investigators still don't have a suspect in the May 26 slaying of Terry Bullard. Bullard had just graduated and had been accepted to Henderson ...

Face-chewing victim details attack in interviewMIAMI (AP) — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre assault alongside a busy South Florida highway told police that his attacker “just ripped me to ribbons.” In a recorded interview with investigators made available Thursday, Ronald Poppo said the man who approached him initially seemed friendly. Then the man, Rudy Eugene, seemed to become angry about something that had happened on Miami Beach, where thousands were partyi...

Bond hearings (Aug. 9, 2012)The following people appeared during felony bond hearings Wednesday at the Pope County Detention Center. Their names, ages, anticipated charges and bond amounts are listed. If charged, they will appear Sept. 10 in Pope County Circuit Court. • Johnathon Cowen, 25, delivery of a controlled substance — $7,500. Over the last year, agents with the 5th Judicial Drug Task Force (DTF) met once with Cowen through the use of a confidential informant and...

FBI: Temple gunman shot himself; still no motiveMILWAUKEE (AP) — There’s no trial to prepare, no jury to persuade, no judge to hand down a sentence. Wade Michael Page is dead, having shot himself in the head after killing six people at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee. Although detectives have interviewed more than 100 people, combed through Page’s email and recovered hundreds of pieces of evidence from his residences to the temple, their findings might never be presented in court. Federal i...

Final prison for Loughner depends on assessmentTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — With life behind bars now a certainty for Jared Lee Loughner, federal prison officials will have to determine just where to put him. The 23-year-old college dropout who went on a deadly shooting rampage at an Arizona political gathering in January 2011 could end up back in a prison medical facility like the one in Springfield, Mo., where he’s been treated for schizophrenia for more than a year. Or he could end up in a pris...

Loughner pleads guilty to Arizona shooting TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jared Lee Loughner agreed Tuesday to spend the rest of his life in prison, accepting that he went on a deadly shooting rampage at an Arizona political gathering and avoiding the prospect of a trial that might have brought him the death penalty. His plea came after a federal judge found that months of psychiatric treatment made Loughner able to understand charges that he killed six people and wounded 13 others, including hi...

Hate music is part of white supremacist circlesMILWAUKEE (AP) — When they aren’t ranting in Internet forums, many of the nation’s white supremacists seek a louder outlet for their extreme views: thunderous, thrashing heavy metal or punk music with lyrics that call for a race war. Wade Michael Page, the gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before being killed by police, was deeply involved in the “hate rock” scene — a shadowy world of hundreds of performers in the U.S....

Man issued $200,000 bond for cocaine A North Carolina man was issued a $200,000 bond Monday morning after police say they found approximately two pounds of cocaine in the trunk of a rental car he was driving. Deldrick Sanders, 21, was stopped near the 83 eastbound mile-marker on Interstate 40 at approximately 12:34 p.m. Friday after allegedly speeding, according to an Arkansas State Police (ASP) report. According the report, Sanders seemed nervous and didn’t make sense, and after...

AP source: Loughner would get life in shootingPHOENIX (AP) — A possible plea deal in the deadly Tucson shootings that wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords would send Jared Lee Loughner to prison for the rest of his life, a person familiar with the case said Saturday. A court-appointed psychiatrist will testify Tuesday that Loughner is competent to enter a plea in the shooting rampage that killed six people and injured 13, including Giffords, said the person, who was not authorized to...

Vast international child-porn network uncoveredBOSTON (AP) — The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a children’s puppeteer in Florida, a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Netherlands. In all, 43 men have been arrested over the past two years in a horrific, far-flung child porn network that unraveled like a sweater with a single loose thread. In this case, the thread was a stuffed toy bunny. The bunny, s...

Bond Hearings (Aug. 3, 2012)The following people appeared during felony bond hearings Wednesday at the Pope County Detention Center. Their names, ages, anticipated charges and bond amounts are listed. If charged, they will appear Sept. 10 in Pope County Circuit Court. Kenneth Barnett, 41, possession of drug paraphernalia — $5,000. According to a report from the Russellville Police Department, police responded to South Arkansas Avenue Wednesday after a woman called and sa...

Man gets $15,000 bond after alleged theftsATKINS — Geno McQuire, 32, who police accused of breaking into several vehicles in Atkins, received a $15,000 bond Friday after police said he sold a stolen firearm to a felon, according to an investigator with the city’s police department. On July 26, the Atkins Police Department (APD) received calls from a residence on Northeast 2nd Street regarding a vehicle that had been broken into, according to testimony given by APD Investigator Scott H...

$50K bail for Vermont man accused of crushing cop carsNEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — A 34-year-old Vermont man who authorities said used a large farm tractor like a monster truck and drove over seven police vehicles — then tried to run over two officers who pursued him — was ordered held on $50,000 bail Friday. Orleans County sheriffs said Roger Pion of Newport was angry over a recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession when he drove the tractor into the parking lot of the sheriff’s departm...

Murder suspects get October court dateDANVILLE — Two Yell County murder suspects received the same October court date Thursday after both pleaded not guilty to Circuit Court Judge Jerry Don Ramey. Timothy J. Kendrick, 31, and Stacey Lucky, 34, were both ordered to appear in Yell County Circuit Court for a jury trial on Oct. 22, with pre-trial appearances scheduled for Oct. 4. Kendrick, of Ola, was issued a $1 million bond after allegedly shooting and killing Harold Adcock, 80, dur...

Ohio teen played major role in HS drug ringMASON, Ohio (AP) — One of the biggest drug dealers in the Cincinnati area was led into court this week. He looked more like the president of the math club — skinny, pale, bespectacled, dressed in a blue buttoned-down shirt and khakis, and just 17 years old. Three weeks before he was supposed to start his senior year in high school, Tyler Pagenstecher pleaded guilty to drug-trafficking charges in juvenile court after being arrested and accused ...

Bond hearings (Aug. 2, 2012)The following people appeared during felony bond hearings Wednesday at the Pope County Detention Center. Their names, ages, anticipated charges and bond amounts are listed. If charged, they will appear Sept. 10 in Pope County Circuit Court. • Efrain Figueroa, 38, delivery of a controlled substance — $200,000. Figueroa was arrested Tuesday on a warrant filed June 26 after allegedly selling three grams of methamphetamine to a confidential inform...

Bonds set for armed robbery suspectsTwo adults and one juvenile face charges of aggravated robbery, residential burglary, theft of property and fleeing after one allegedly hit a man in the head with a gun while the others threatened and stole the man’s money. According to testimony by Russellville Police Department (RPD) Det. Mark Frost during the suspects’ felony bond hearings Wednesday, the victim reported to police while riding his bike around 4 p.m. Monday, he spotted Patric...

Colorado suspect charges: Murder, attempted murder CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — James Holmes appeared just as dazed as he did in his first court hearing after the deadly Colorado movie theater massacre. Holmes, 24, sat silently in a packed Denver-area courtroom on Monday, as a judge told him about the charges filed against him, including murder and attempted murder, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history. After the charges were read, prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred...

Bond hearings (July 31, 2012)• Gyuan Toney, 33, delivery of controlled substances — $50,000. According to a warrant filed Dec. 2, 2009, on April 9, 2009, Toney sold $200 worth of crack to a confidential informant working with the Arkansas State Police and the 5th Judicial Drug Task Force (DTF). Additionally, on April 13, 2009, Toney, who has spent some of the last two years in Michigan, sold $200 worth of crack and $200 worth of powder cocaine to a confidential informant,...